1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; appropriating money for the Remembering With 
1.3 	Dignity project.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; REMEMBERING WITH DIGNITY PROJECT.
 1.6 	(a) $400,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of human 
1.7 	services, to be available until September 30, 2008, to make a grant to Advocating Change 
1.8 	Together for the purposes of the Remembering With Dignity project in paragraph (b).
1.9 	(b) As part of the Remembering With Dignity project, the grant recipient shall:
1.10 	(1) conduct necessary research on persons buried in state cemeteries who were 
1.11 	residents of state hospital or regional treatment centers and buried in numbered or 
1.12 	unmarked graves;
1.13 	(2) purchase and install headstones that are properly inscribed with their names on 
1.14 	the graves of those persons; and
1.15 	(3) collaborate with community groups and state and local government agencies to 
1.16 	build community involvement and public awareness, ensure public access to the graves, 
1.17 	and ensure appropriate perpetual maintenance of state cemeteries.

1.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.